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- ↑ "Compass". Actual Size Artworks. Artist's website. Archived from the original on 1 March 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ↑ Gould, Whitney (7 October 2002). "Public Art's Emergence Offers New Ways to Experience City". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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